[razzimatazz]

There are steps missing, perhaps -

Artists with only 2 songs on Spotify are probably fake, there are odds they are the property of Spotify themselves and have been carefully created and placed into playlists to minimize royalty costs to Spotify.

I love to discover a great new song and artist on a playlist, where that artist has a whole bunch of songs for me to try out - such an artist is much more real. And I'm willing to pay a tiny bit more to access real artists because of that.

[nwsm]

> Artists with only 2 songs on Spotify are probably fake

Based on what? Spotify has made it very easy for independent artists to publish on the platform. I know small time musicians with just a couple releases.

[razzimatazz]

Fair enough - based only on the couple of super-minor artists I've stumbled upon who have put on an album or EP's worth of tracks at once (4-10 or so).